LENGTHENING AND THE GILBERT-VARSHAMOV BOUND

Authors
EDEL Y BIERBRAUER J
Citation
Y. Edel et J. Bierbrauer, LENGTHENING AND THE GILBERT-VARSHAMOV BOUND, IEEE transactions on information theory, 43(3), 1997, pp. 991-992
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Information Science & Library Science","Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
IEEE transactions on information theory → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189448
Volume
43
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
991 - 992
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9448(1997)43:3<991:LATGB>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
We use lengthening and an enhanced version of the Gilbert-Varshamov lo wer bound for linear codes to construct a large number of record-break ing codes. Our main theorem may be seen as a closure operation on data bases.